Damper-regulator.



PATENTED NOV. 19, 1907.

B F. LUTZ DAMPER REGULATOR. APPLwATIdN FILED 1320.14, 1005.

BENJAMIN FRY LUTZ, Ol LI'llTZ, PENNSYLVANA.

DAMPER-BE GULATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 19, 1907.

Application filed December 14. 1905- Scrial No. 291.773.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN FRY Li'rz.

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acitizen of the-United States, residing at Lititz, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pt-innsylvania, have invented certain new and usefulilm )rovements in Damper-liegulatorsf and l o l declare the lollowmg to be t a fullyelear, and exact description of the m- The object of the invention isito provide a device of this character by, nieansml which 'vention, such as will enable others skilled in 1 the art to which it appertams to make and ranged in a suitable box or casing 15, which is secured upon the wall or other suitable in operation, the alarm clock is wound and set to operate at any desired hour thereby releasing the weight holding mechanism and permitting the weight to drop and operate the furnace draft, as hereinbeiore described.

l rom the foregoing description, taken in invention will be readily understood without thedam ers of a furnace or heater may be regulate time.

automatically and at any desired Withthe above and other objects in view,

, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangementof parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In:the accompanyingdrawing is shown a diagrammatic view of the invention.

Referring more articularly to the drawings, 1 denotes a urnacc which may be of an suitable design and construction, but is are shown as having a check door 2 and a tdraft;door 3. Connected to the draft door 3 and the cheek door .2 are chains 4 and 5, saidcliains being united at a suitable oint and passed through guide pulleys 6. gonnectcd to the chain 4 is an )erating weight 7,1 to which is secured a boo 8.

When the weight 7 is in an operative position'with the furnace draft door 3 closed and the check door 2 open, the hook 8 on said weight is n aged with a (pivotally mounted supporting ever 9. Sai lever is heldjn 'gosition by means of a pivotally mounted etent 10 (provided, with a laterally extending curve trip arm 12 which projects into the-path of movement of a trip lever 13 secured to the alarm winding shaft of a clock requiring a more extended explanation.'

Various changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the priuciple or sacrificing any of the advantages oi this invention, as delined by the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by lie tors-Patent, isz- In combination with a furnace and its draft and fuel orcbeck doors, a draft re olator embracing guide rolls, and a ilexi le connection having one end attached to the draft door, said flexible connection also having a like branch connection with the fuel or check door intermediate of said gu de rolls, a counter-balance weight connected to one end of said connection and provided with an engaging hook, a horizontal supporting lever, engaged at its ,lorward'tmd with said hook for sustaining said weight, a pivoted detent hung at its upper end and havin a shoulder at. its lower end engaged with t to roar end of said lever for the retention of siiidrlover in weight-supporting position, said dctent being adapted to swing by gravity to en aging position and having at its lower on an upwardly curved tri -arm serving as a weight.

for the retention 0 said lever in effective witnesses.

BENJAll'iIN FRY LUTZ. Witnesses EZRA Lu'rz,

A. B. REIDENBACH. 

